Instead Quotes
6491 Instead quotes by 3769 unique authors
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Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one…
— Claude C. Hopkins
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You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.
— Marianne Williamson
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Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions…
— Unknown Author
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Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to accept rather than…
— Stephen A. Diamond
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I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Most people never realize that 80% of the work is done before you step in a room. That's why they spend their entire lives grasping…
— Ramit Sethi
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
— Ingrid Bergman
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We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which…
— Warren Buffett
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Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.
— Warren Buffett
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Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn…
— Angela Merkel
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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and…
— Barry S. Strauss
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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For decades, people have known the chemical-propulsion approach to space travel is really not going to get us that far. Chemical propulsion is essentially like…
— Franklin Chang Diaz
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Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
— Dodie Smith
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The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can…
— Laozi
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The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When…
— Laozi
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I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect…
— Velcrow Ripper
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[on having to lose weight] I thought I'll drink vodka instead of wine because it's less calories!
— Sienna Miller
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This was a different form of French resistance in Paris on this day, all of these people coming together and sending out pictures like this…
— Kimberley Strassel
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Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the…
— David Limbaugh
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The report begins by asserting that it is a 'comprehensive' look at Benghazi resulting from an intensive investigation of nearly two years. Neither claim is…
— Stephen F. Hayes
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This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes,…
— Isaac Newton
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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing…
— Bernard Baruch
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